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title: On his hateful couch shall Winona lie? — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: On his hateful couch shall Winona lie? Who acts: Winona. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8, sentence 7

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On his hateful couch shall Winona lie?

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**Who acts:** Winona · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** hateful couch

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winona), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:15:7
# text = On his hateful couch shall Winona lie?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Winona	Winona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | shall | Winona |  |  | face's hateful couch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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